Published by Orion, 28 February 2013.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-44519-9
Discovering a body of a murdered girl, who
went missing a year before, Stephen Killigan is drawn into a weird web of
murder in Cambridge
and it is complicated by some strange anomalies. A second body is found, a boy who went
missing the night before, but the body seems to have been dead for over a
year. Stephen has to find out what is
going on before he is charged for murder or possibly killed himself. The policewoman on the case, D.I. Jane Horne
wants to believe him but evidence seems to continue to point to him, and her
own life and health keep interfering in her enquiry.
This is a really complex novel
with twists and turns and finely tuned characters, some strange, some quite
normal, and some historical. The
backdrop of the city of Cambridge
and the surrounding countryside plays its part in fleshing out a tale of
murder, psychosis and time travel. The
plot flashes between the current day and past times, with characters who morph
and trick their way through its intricacies.
The police are typically dumbfounded by a set of murders that don't seem
to make sense and Stephen fumbles his way to finding out the truth, exposing
the black past of his college and discovering a sinister individual whose past
and present overlap with dark consequences.
A well written and intricate novel
with some interesting and unusual facets.
The protagonist Stephen Killigan
is at times, not always a likeable character, but against the challenges
and danger you find yourself working with him to unravel the various strands of
the story. Not an easy read as it
requires concentration but a fascinating and worthwhile narrative, beautifully
written around the backdrop of Cambridge
current and historic.
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Reviewer: Amanda Brown
A K Benedict was born in
1979. She read English at Cambridge and studied
creative writing at Sussex.
She now composes film and television soundtracks, as well as performing as a
musician. She lives in Hastings
and writes in a room filled with teapots and the severed head of a
ventriloquist’s dummy
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